In an article on The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates makes a case for reparations for two hundred and fifty years of slavery, ninety years of Jim Crow, and Thirty Five years of racist housing policies. He says:

Liberals today mostly view racism not as an active, distinct evil but as a relative of white poverty and inequality. They ignore the long tradition of this country actively punishing black success—and the elevation of that punishment, in the mid-20th century, to federal policy.